StorPool 20.0 Change Log

20.0 revision 20.0.508.e2623b204

Released 26 May 2023

  • Initial support for Debian 11 and ProxMox operating system.

  • Drop support for Debian 9 operating system.

  • storpool_stat now sends also all kernels installed on the node in order to trigger alerts for known-bad kernel versions (was sending only installed kernel versions with installed modules for StorPool).

20.0 revision 20.0.487.818a7cea4

Released 08 May 2023

  • Updated disk_init_helper to properly handle multipath enabled NVMe devices.

  • Revised net_helper to generate a random MAC address for bond and bridge interfaces in all bond enabled modes. This resolves an issue where bridge interfaces would have a different MAC address than the underlying bond, causing local (intra-node) communication between services to fail.

  • A single VF interface is now being created for all mlx5_core based NICs by default by the vf-genconf tool, so that a dummy interface will no longer be required for any bond-based configurations.

20.0 revision 20.0.473.ad8854a34

Released 28 Apr 2023

  • Fix for storpool_server to exit the cluster before waiting for all operations on ejected drives to complete, when ejecting all drives simultaneously.

20.0 revision 20.0.466.2a2e26fd9

Released 21 Apr 2023

  • storpool_volumecare is now a highly available service running on each API node (notes here).

  • The SP_BRIDGE_TEMPLATE configuration option is now superceded by the mgmtConfig backupTemplateName option (more at this part of the CLI tutorial)

  • The storpool_stat service now collects only specific sysctl values instead of all of them, due to some operations being triggerred on reading the values of sysctls like vm.stat_refresh.

20.0 revision 20.0.441.61c5774c8

Released on 08 Apr 2023

  • Fixed storpool_stat crashing if a volume disappears while it is collecting stats for it.

  • New scrubbing procedure executed through cron with lower number of drives for each run for less impact on cluster operations.

  • New Management menu in CLI initially showing active API tasks progress (more details here)

20.0 revision 20.0.419.261c0e3b2

Released on 18 Mar 2023

  • Adds support for the Micron 7450 PRO NVMe drive.

  • Functional updates for storpool_ctl now leaving storpool_nvmed running upon stop when the --expose-nvme is not provided

  • Configure a custom ssh port for the storpool_havm service

  • Fixed CLI warning when reporting per-GiB IOPS or bandwidth limits

20.0 revision 20.0.386.8ea42a7d8

Released 08 Mar 2023

  • New option to storpool_ctl to show only not running or not enabled services (more info here)

  • The output of storpool attach list CLI command now shows volume and snapshot tags.

20.0 revision 20.0.372.4cd1679db

Released 24 Feb 2023

20.0 revision 20.0.353.e5f7ee9c0

Released 16 Feb 2023

  • Fix for storpool_volumecare printing erroneous output on stdout, breaking JSON output.

  • Add an API option to control whether a volume and its snapshots are moved to the destination sub-cluster upon multicluster attach operation.

20.0 revision 20.0.334.70c4fbda5

Released 03 Feb 2023

  • Fix for random read performance through storpool_bridge with a configured large number of maxRemoteRecoverRequests.

20.0 revision 20.0.325.7d16d036f

Released 01 Feb 2023

  • Gathering additional data in storpool_stat for the installed package versions for OpenNebula and CloudStack orchestrations.

  • Increase the number of NVMe drives for a single node from 16 to 64.

20.0 revision 20.0.276.b05695816

Released 11 Jan 2023

  • The balancer tool now requires one of -F, -A or -R options to proceed, see Rebalancing StorPool in the User Guide.

  • Removed support for Debian 9.

  • storpool_nvmed service now waits for all NVMe devices to be initialized by the OS, which fixes an issue with NVMe’s not getting back in the cluster upon reboot.

  • MetaV1 compatibility is removed, minimum version for supported upgrade is now 19.01.2995.15aa353e8.

  • Increase gratuitious ARP interval in storpool_iscsi to workaround broken behavior in Xen Server 7.x.

20.0 revision 20.0.205.c5cbaeb49

Released 19 Dec 2022

  • storpool_mgmt - fix for crash on an attempt to soft eject a disk with multicluster attached volume.

20.0 revision 20.0.202.79fc357c5

Released 12 Dec 2022

  • Adds support for Samsung PM1733 NVMe.

  • Fix ARP resolve on backup interface in missing-cross-switch-link iSCSI multipath case.

  • Gathering additional data in storpool_stat:

    • status of iSCSI controllers connections.

    • kdump service status.

    • present kernel command line parameters.

    • present sysctl configuration.

    • status for all systemd units.

20.0 revision 20.0.172.8ebac5311

Released 30 Nov 2022

  • storpool_iscsi:

    • scalability improvements with 1000+ exports.

    • decreased failover times.

  • Automatically detect NVMe devices with StorPool signatures (removes the SP_NVME_PCI_ID configuration option).

  • Removed support for pre-AMD Zen-based processors (the amdfam10 architecture).

  • Fix the storpool_vcctl tool causing failure with status volume command.

  • Fix in storpool_server for induced latency during entries aggregation.

20.0 revision 20.0.93.78df908ec

Released 20 Oct 2022

  • Adds support for Dell branded Samsung PM1725 and XS1715 NVMe devices.

  • Add handling for non-null-terminated NVMe serial and product numbers.

  • New default latency threshold values (more at In-server disk and journal performance tracking).

20.0 revision 20.0.38.c5178becb

Released 03 Oct 2022

  • storpool_server detects new trim operations that only trim over old ones and completes them immediately.

20.0 revision 20.0.19.1a208ffab

Released 08 Sep 2022

  • storpool_volumecare - significant performance speedup in large backup clusters.

  • storpool_havm - highly available virtual machine service helper (more here).

  • storpool_mgmt - fix for crash on an attempt to rebase a volume or a snapshot to an already destroyed snapshot.

Previous release here